[LINK] Wireless phone industry taken to task

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Thu Jul 12 20:33:46 AEST 2007


Ivan Trundle wrote:
> 
> On 12/07/2007, at 7:04 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 
>> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>>
>>> (I'd post the marketwatch.com URL, but it's far too long to bother...)
>>> Wireless-phone industry tactics criticized
>>> Lawmakers hit early-termination fees, handset restrictions
>>> By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
>>> Last Update: 4:19 PM ET Jul 11, 2007
>>> WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday took the
>>
>>
>> Is this a case of the URL being longher than the article itself?
> 
> Indeed it would be, if that's all that you saw.... I don't understand 
> why the article would have been truncated at that point, unless a pesky 
> control character was inserted into the html code. Here's the URL:
> 
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wireless-phone-industry-tactics-criticized/story.aspx?guid=%7b25DDFA68-CB6C-450F-AFA4-5B1037F26545%7d&dist=MostReadHome&print=true&dist=printTop 
> 
> 
> (I found other iterations, but this was the shortest that I could find)

Sorry ... I did snip the entire article down to what you see.

That URL is a doozy!

Off to watch The Great Global Warming Swindle now.
CYA!

-rick


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